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I'm currently using an SATA hard drive on my primary dev machine, but planning to upgrade to an SSD at some point soon. I use TrueImage on a regular basis to make backups, and to upgrade my harddrive without reinstalling everything. Will I be able to restore and boot onto an SSD? Will there be a performance hit or other issues to watch out for? |
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While I agree that this is primarily a hardware question, I think it's interesting enough for the SO crowd... SSD's implement the ATA command interface which, speaking generically, has supported the same basic features since the 1990's. To the extent that the drive "geometry" is supported, the computer shouldn't care if the drive is SSD, or magnetic, or even battery-backed RAM. As long as your backup/restore mechanism can handle the different drive sizes, you're in good shape. But, I have to ask, why are you moving to SSD? While SSD's are great for read performance, their write performance can be much worse than a HDD if you have a lot of writes. If you're hoping to speed up your project build times, you may be in for some disappointment. (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499889/ssd-and-programming and http://carymillsap.blogspot.com/2009/04/cary-on-joel-on-ssd.html and http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/03/27.html). |
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Any SSD that is supported (i.e. a SATA SSD) by your hardware should appear as just another drive. |
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Make sure your imaging software can restore to a smaller drive (or lets you restore some files to one drive and some to another). Most SSDs that are reasonably affordable are still much smaller than reasonable magnetic drives. Beyond that, Mitch is right -- a drive is a drive, unless your imaging software does something really, really odd. |
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Joel submit a post on that subject, you may be interested to read it. |
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